I only made it to Slough Canal Festival by bike this year, only having one day off that weekend. A few days later, however, I took Tortoise down to the road bridge to collect (a much delayed, but anyway) wood delivery. Having heard rumours of logs further down, I headed west. Access as far as the festival site a couple of bridges further down wasn't too bad, having had a few boats up and down (the trip boat did a sterling job of picking up rubbish on it's prop), but from there onwards, it was a nightmare. The rather unclear picture above is the view down the weedhatch; there's prop in there somewhere, but I'm not sure where. There's just so many platic bags, basically, and it's not going to get any better; more boats would at least pick them up out of the way for the rest of us, but there's nothing to go to on that stretch anyway, and the canal's full of plastic bags...
I gave up on finding any stashes of logs, but settled on a couple of flytipped pallets and the odd log or two which seems to have been fished out of the canal and dumped. It's a start.
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That's such a shame - the Slough Arm has such potential and I'd love to see the terminus beind developed.
Enjoy the festival anyway...
Sue, nb Indigo Dream
Great picture although somewhat depressing. How many boats got to the festival?
N
Simon, you might like to have a look at a little something that got on air a couple of days ago. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-15478670
ha - thanks - I'll pass the link on to my two colleagues, who not only share the passion but probably built the 405 line scan converter featured... ;-)
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